mod_rewrite question

[meee]

I would like to send all users from
www.domainname.com/cars/post-title into post.php?category=car&url=post-title
AND
all users from
www.domainname.com/blog-title to blog.php?url=blog-title
I wrote in htaccess the following lines:
1. RewriteRule ^cars/?([-a-zA-Z_&0-9&,!]+).html$ post.php?category=car&url=$1
2. RewriteRule ^/?([-a-zA-Z_&0-9&,!]+).html$ blog.php?id=$1

The problem is if user type www.domainname.com/cars-some-text it sends to post.php and not blog.php because it take the first rule even if there is no "/" after "cars". Please tell me how I can write that it sends to cars/ only if there is also "/" in cars/ and not only "cars".

[Kayarc]

I would like to send all users from
www.domainname.com/cars/post-title into post.php?category=car&url=post-title
AND
all users from
www.domainname.com/blog-title to blog.php?url=blog-title

May I ask you why you are trying to make your URL's worse?

[meee]

why worse? It is easier to remember www.domainname.com/cars/my-new-car than http://www.domainname.com/post.php?c...url=my-new-car. I have user blogs on the site and than I have posts inside categories which is not related to blog. All work is already done so I don't think I will change all structure if not really necessary.

Please go back to my question how to put condition that there need to be also / after cars to send user.

[Kayarc]

why worse? It is easier to remember www.domainname.com/cars/my-new-car than http://www.domainname.com/post.php?c...url=my-new-car. I have user blogs on the site and than I have posts inside categories which is not related to blog. All work is already done so I don't think I will change all structure if not really necessary.

Please go back to my question how to put condition that there need to be also / after cars to send user.

The way you worded it in the original post made it sound like you wanted to change www.domainname.com/cars/my-new-car to http://www.domainname.com/post.php?c...url=my-new-car

I would love to help you out but htaccess is Chinese to me

[meee]

I tried dobule /, so RewriteRule ^cars//?([-a-zA-Z_&0-9&,!]+).html$ post.php?category=car&url=$1 and it works. I am not sure why, but it works!

[meee]

The problem was in ? because question mark means that a character before is not a condition. Now I removed ? and it works perfectly.